Machination

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MACHINATION. The act by which some plot or conspiracy is set on foot.

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Many corruption cases have stalled due to deliberately poor investigations, paralysing the judicial process through dubious machinations or outright bribery of the court officers.

Shielding suspects is bad for war on graft

HB 8204 provides a broader definition of game-fixing by including the acts of point-shaving and game machination as prohibited acts in professional or amateur sports competitions.

House approves stiffer penalty for game-fixing

It is the under-employed who usually fall victims to their machinations, and that is very important.

Society is to blame for upsurge of Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab -Farah

'It is machinations of all kinds, it can be through the court, by funding court decision.

National Convention: PDP in crucial meeting on Friday

Summary: Syria, with its factions, atrocities and machinations, has drawn an understandable amount of focus from countries regionally and around the word.

Prelude to disaster

Created over the course of a decade, Bacchus follows cutthroat machinations of immortal Greek gods, especially the crafty Bacchus, God of Wine.

Bacchus Volume One

Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed condemned the ceasefire violations by the Pakistani and Indian forces and targeting civilians in the state demanding from Pakistan to stop "military machinations to inflict miseries on the people of Jammu and Kashmir".

India orders evacuation as death toll in Pakistan firing rises to 6

He grumbled about a twin ISISs afflicting Lebanese politics thanks to machinations by certain deputies of the opposing camp and those he termed as the "people of the cave".

Kanaan: Taef for implementation or slaying the Charter?

A Borisov could not divulge further details, as, according to him, his colleagues were currently drafting the motives.A aThe only thing this government can do is expose Brussels' machinations against Bulgaria,a Borisov told journalists in Parliament.

Opposition GERB To Table Fifth No Confidence Vote

Life is complicated by the jealous machinations of a younger sister and a variety of friends and relatives.

Brigitte Lozerec'h: Sisters

In a statement, the Alliance said that this "aggression is part of the terrorist Zionist violations and regional machinations that want to stir denominationalism in Lebanon".

Iraqi National Alliance condemns Beirut explosion

The history of Sutton High Street machinations makes us all very nervous, because previous 'strategies' from this quarter have resulted in taking us into Birmingham, and we all know how successful that has been!